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Re: Running a tight ship It may work wonders at conventions full of Swedes, but in general I think this is a pretty stupid way to handle the situation. In-game is in-game, out-of-game is out-of-game. I don't want my players taking in-game conflicts out of game, or vice versa. For that reason...

Re: Why leave it to the group? In my experience, the DM does 70%-90% of the work in the campaign. Thus, the DM should have 70%-90% of the say in how the campaign is structured. If you've got a sucker DM that's willing to do all the work while you just throw out orders to him, then hey, good...

The fact that I'm a Big Fat Jerk simply cannot be denied. But c'mon -- talk about BROKEN! I can't believe you tried to pull that.

You're not alone. It depends on the amount of magic in the campaign, but it's not unheard of for twinks to brag about their red wizard grey elves with 20 starting int and +6 Headbands of intellect with spell prodigy throwing around spells with save DCs of 127. Or whatever. On the other hand...

On that note, one trick I thought of that I haven't tried myself (or seen mentioned) is using Imbue with Spell Ability to allow another to cast Shield Other. Charm Monster a troll to be your buddy . . . Imbue him . . . he casts Shield Other on the tank in the group . . . the troll hangs back...

Banning Haste.

Bob sounds like an ass -- I'm not sure why some folks on here (a minority, to be sure) are encouraging you to "leave it up to the group" or "give him another chance". He sounds like 100% wanker -- at best, a stern talking-to is going to reduce that to 50% wanker. At best. Boot 'im!

Ah. I see. You allowed that, eh? I'm beginning to get a better idea of precisely how the party managed to survive. You'd better not run any battles with dragons, or else BADD is going to get your number. Incidentally, why would the rogue get an AoO off of the cleric's Slay Living? He cast...

Yeah, we've done this dance before :). You and your Rays of Frost on the Fire Giants . . . The problem is that it's a touch attack, so it's going to hit 95% of the time when cast by the average Trickster. And if he's Hasted, he can cast three of them a round (might as well cast one Quickened...

It may be his schtick, but it's a retarded schtick. It's not quite up there with the Great Cleave/Whirlwind but it's close.

Re: Against the Elves – Prologue SOOO untrue! :D First of all, I started grumbling a bit before then, as I recall. Maybe around the portcullis. Second of all, Morrow makes it sound like I just *decided* to throw another group at them after their invisibility wore off, as opposed to leaving...

Lazy.

Kinda depends on your DM. I wouldn't allow it . . . there's a reason that it's not on the magic item list in the DMG.

Trying to figure out a way to throw multiple Javelins of Piercing? :D

The question is, do you have to ready casting a "counterspell", or can you just ready casting a *spell*? For instance, maybe I want to do an official counterspell . . . or maybe I just want to cast "Silence" spell instead. Or a magic missile to do some damage if my buddy just hit him the round...

I had to ask -- your former gaming group sounded like they were probably a bunch of seventeen year olds.

I gotta agree with that. If none of them came to your defense, or supported you against the twit, an invite isn't exactly in order. Can I ask how old y'all are?

In my campaign, I rescaled the Summon Monster spells thusly: Summon Monster II gets CR1 creatures Summon Monster III gets CR3 creatures Summon Monster IV gets CR5 creatures Summon Monster V gets CR7 creatures Summon Monster VI gets CR9 creatures Summon Monster VII gets CR11 creatures Summon...

Also, the ogre is also not subject to Hold Person, which is a nice little cookie in and of itself. If you compared a 10th level fighter with a Ogre/Fighter5 (both equipped as 10th level characters, of course), I think you'd see that the Ogre more than kicks the 10th level fighter's ass. Better...

I'll chime in among those who say that +5ECL for an ogre fighter-type is (marginally) too low. No way in hell it's too high. +10 to Str and +4 to Con and +5 natural armor and reach and a 40' move . . . too juicy to pass up for anything less. He can handle the loss of a few feats. Which is why...